Installation Instructions

Xentica is planned to run with several GPU backends in future,
like CUDA, OpenCL and GLSL. However, right now, only CUDA is
supported.

Warning

If your GPU is not CUDA-enabled, this guide is not for
you. Framework will just not run, no matter how hard you try. You
may check the list of CUDA-enabled cards, if you have any doubts.

Note

This page currently containing instructions only for Debian-like
systems. If you are on other system, you still can use links to
pre-requisites in order to install them. If so, please contact us
by opening an issue on GitHub. We could help you if you'll meet
some troubles during installation, and also your experience could
be used to improve this document.

Core Prerequisites

In order to run CA models without any visualization, you have to
correctly install following software.

Generally, you can install it just from your distrubution's repository:

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Although, default packages are often out of date, so in case you
have one of those latest cool GPU, you may want to upgrade to the
latest CUDA version from official NVIDIA source. We'll hint you
with a good article explaining how to do it. But you are really
on your own with this stuff.